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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"DREAMers"”.
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Storytellers, Dreamers, Rebels:
Peter Carey has been discussed in academia since the 1980s. And since then these discussions revolve around postmodernism, postcolonial studies or, indeed, both at once. So, either Peter Carey has been writing the same old novel for nearly thirty years by now, or there are whole worlds in his …
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Posterior cerebral artery (PCA) infarcts and dreaming : a neuropsychological study
… cortex. Nine participants (three non-dreamers and six dreamers) who had suffered non-hemorrhagic infarction in the territory of the posterior cerebral artery were recruited in this study. Case histories and neuroradiological data were used to compare the lesion sites of non-dreamers …
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SHIFTING DREAMS: INTERSECTIONS OF THE RHETORICAL IMAGINATION OF U.S. IMMIGRATION POLICY AND THE WRITING PRACTICES OF DREAMERS
… discourse of the migrant activists, specifically DREAMers, affected by the Acts language. Through a hermeneutic approach combining a rhetorical, genre, and critical discourse analysis, I examine how the DREAMers respond to marginalizing textual features of the Act. DREAMers appropriate genres and …
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Ser Americano: The Cost of Being American
… Latinx youth. These activists became known as "Dreamers" who continue to advocate for a pathway to citizenship for all immigrants. Through media, speeches, and artwork, Dreamers use the cultural narrative of the "American Dream" to create the boundaries of their American identity. Traditionally, …
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MEDIATED NARRATIVES ON CITIZENSHIP, IMMIGRATION, AND NATIONAL IDENTITY: THE CONSTRUCTION OF DREAMER IDENTITIES IN PUBLIC DISCOURSE SURROUNDING PRESIDENT OBAMA'S 2012 DEFERRED DEPORTATION ANNOUNCEMENT
… specifically young undocumented immigrants (DREAMers), are constructed in mediated discourse; (3) how national identity is constructed through these mediated discourses; and, (4) how the representation of DREAMer identities reproduces or challenges dominant public discourses on citizenship, …
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Academic Dreamers to Leaders: The Emergence of the Mathematics and Science for Minority Students ((Ms)(2)) Program at Philips Academy Andover
This dissertation explores the experiences of students in this program spanning nearly a quarter of a central. My research seeks to understand and shred additional light on how certain outreach programs might help along the pipeline in regard to improving minority representation in mathematics and …
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Undocumented, Unapologetic, And Unafraid: Discursive Strategies Of The Immigrant Youth Dream Social Movement
… typecast of "illegal aliens" by identifying DREAMers as exceptional students. During the second phase, from 2007 to 2009, self-representation strategies worked to unite undocumented youth through the creation of national coalitional organizations and through self-identification as …
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What is the experience of vivid dreaming and its impact on the dreamer’s life? A phenomenological inquiry
… aims to deepen our understanding of how vivid dreamers are affected upon awakening. Through structured existential analysis (SEA) with eleven purposefully selected participants aged between 22 and 45, their profound dreams were explored, revealing three temporal themes (Dreaming as Being, …
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"Defective childhoods": television news and the social construction of the 'child in need'
… hidden from the rest of America, as courageous dreamers, and as living abnormal lives. Furthermore, I compare and contrast the news programs' representation to the Progressive era child-saving movement, revealing that the modern media's broadcasts on 'children in need' disfavor lower class …
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The illusion theme in nine plays by Eugene O'Neill.
… tendency to the rejection of the values of dreamers, this rejection reaching a high point in Lavinia's refusal to hope at the end of Mourning Becomes Electra. The plays of the last period seem to indicate that the nature of ultimate reality is death and nothingness, and that an illusion that …
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An Exploration of Undocumented Punjabi Migrants’ Experiences of Travelling to the United Kingdom
… level unearthed five dual narratives; the dreamers who were also escaping some form of oppression, the experience of powerlessness and resilience, feelings of helplessness and hopefulness, feeling supported and unsupported, and lastly being identified as faujis or freshies but equally …
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An Exploration of the Thoughts and Emotions Associated with Goal Attainment
… whilst only a quarter of the positive thinking ‘Dreamers’ and a third of the ‘Positive’ participants achieve theirs. This study offers a greater understanding of the inner experience of thoughts and emotions in pursuing goals. Revealing the combinations of negative emotions balanced with positive …
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A stirring of cultures: The contest for place, belonging and identity in Australia
… the eastern goldfields, the lands of the ‘dingo dreamers,’ her people. Jeanie is for many years content to exist on the edge of Aboriginal society, reluctant to leave the security of the ‘white’ life she had grown up with. However, her eldest daughter, Jaylene, already enmeshed in both worlds, …
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Countering the DREAMer Narrative: Storytelling, Immigration Reform, and the Work of 67 Sueños
<p>Research question: <em>How has the practice of storytelling been used in the current U.S. conflicts over immigration?</em></p> <p>Telling an effective story is an essential part of a complex strategy to bring about social change, but storytelling as a part of collective action has not been …
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Parietal thalamocortical circuitry in global dream cessation
Until relatively recently, the overarching agreement in the clinical literature was that total cessation of dreaming is related to posterior parietal lesions. Two recent case reports (Bischof and Bassetti, 2004; Poza and Martí-Massó, 2006), in which patients with medial occipital lesions …